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The World of the Waltz. Dance and Non-Contemporaneity in Schnitzler's Texts
No full textArthur Schnitzler lived through a time of profound political, social and intellectual change: the First World War transformed Austria from a huge multinational empire into a small Alpine republic; the liberal middle-class consensus which characterised the author’s personal background began to disintegrate during this time, and new departures not only in science and technology but also in literary styles and conventions posed new challenges to a politically involved and acutely socially aware modern writer
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No full textRobert Walser (1878-1956) ‘Lange wohnte sie nun schon im Turm der Geduld’ (1929)
Get PDFThe Swiss writer Robert Walser is something of an enigma in modern German literature. Walser himself was a rather eccentric character, who spent his days writing and taking long, meandering walks though the Swiss countryside. Walser’s writing was considered by many editors and readers to be strange, complex, and even bizarre. Thus, it is no surprise that during his lifetime, Walser did not achieve the kind of acclaim and success that he constantly strove for. However, since his death in 1956, there has been a gradual reawakening of interest in the writer’s work. In particular, the discovery of the 526 Mikrogramme amongst his papers after his death, each one covered with a minuscule, barely legible script and containing the drafts of many more poems, short dramas and prose texts, has led to a renewed interest in this writer’s work. In recent years. Walser’s Mikrogramme have been deciphered and published, and these writings give us a fascinating insight into Robert Walser’s unusual method of producing his texts
Poetics of Insignificance:Edgar Hilsenrath’s Reinvention of the Shtetl and the Tradition of Humour in German-Jewish Ghetto Writing
No full textMarital Crisis, Open Marriage, Separation and Divorce in Schnitzler’s Dramas
No full textThis chapter is of central importance to the volume’s theme. It comprehensively summarises the intricacies of Austrian divorce law, draws on the unpublished manuscripts of Schnitzler’s plays to shed new light on the attempt to explore new norms governing married couples, including experiments with open marriage, and provides a new reading of Schnitzler’s play Zwischenspiel (1905), which has so far received scant critical attention. Here Leydecker demonstrates that its depiction of divorce differs significantly from contemporary plays, but also ignores the realities of Austrian divorce law at the time of writing. Reviewed by Professor Ritchie Robertson (Oxford) as ‘very useful’
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